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L BRAUING THE FILES 0F FIBRE. No. 296,313. Patented Apr. 8,1884.

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Fl 'iClie n'rrnr AARON B. BURTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESXE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE DRIVEN Elilllilhvl/ POST AND PILE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BRACING THE PIL ES OF PIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,313, dated April 8, 1884.

I application filed August 4, 1883. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AARON B. BURTON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracing the Piles of Piers, Docks, &c., of which the following is such full, clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view of av portion of a structure having my improved bracing. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.

:5 This my invention relates to bracing for piles of piers,.docks, bridges, and all structures to be erected under or partially under water; and it consists ofa loose ring-fastening for the lower end of the bracing about the pile, with a bracket on the pile for the ring to catch on, and the various combinations hereinafter specifiedand claimed.

To the pile, at or a short distance above the ground line, are arranged brackets A A, which are preferably attached before the pile is driven, the proper place, as near the groundline as possible, having been determined by measurement.

The anchor-ring B is made of sufficient size to encircle the pile and pass outside the brackets A A, and in this anchor-ring B are the eyes 6 b, Figs. 3 and a, through which a bolt, as 0, passes to secure the bracing-rod G, the other end of which may be attached to another pile or portion of the structure; or, as shown in the drawings, it may be attached to a ring, D, of like form as B, encircling another pile, and free to move upward and downward thereon, there being also attached to the ring D another bracing-rod, E, the other end of which rod is secured to the pier or another pile, or the one about which B is, and is so arranged with a turn-buckle, F,-that it may be drawn up tight, and the ring B be thereby drawn against the bracket A, the ring D at the same time tightly drawing on the pile about which it is and holding it firmly.

The drawings show four anchor rings B on each pile, excepting l, on which there are three, and the necessary brackets Athere for, and the corresponding rods 0 and E and rings D, to make a bracing in each direction toward which there is a pile to brace to. At the top of the piles there is a rod or brace, G, with the turn-buckle H, intended to hold the tops of the piles steady and keep them from turning, when screw-flange piles are used and the superstructure is of such a class as not to hold them from turning.

The bracing is shown with screw-piles; but it may be used equally well with other forms. The bracing is shown with only one free ring D in each run of bracing. There may, however, be any number of free rings desired in each run of bracing, the rods being increased in the same number as the free rings.

The lower ring B may be held in its place by other appliances than the bracket. A setscrew, a key, the, may be used to hold it in its place.

The manner of application is as follows: The piles having been placed as they are to be used, and having brackets A A thereon at or near the ground in which they are placed, the anchor-ring B, with the rod 0 attached, 7 is dropped down about one pile, and the free ring I), having the other end of the rod 0 attached thereto, is dropped down about the adjacent pile, the rod E being also attached to the ring D, and both rings B and D are allowed to descend their respective piles until the ring B passes the bracket A, when the rod E is secured to the turn-buckle F and drawn tight, so that the free ring D is drawn up, and the ring Bis drawn against the bracket A, and the run of bracing made tight. Should there be'more free rings and rods in a run of bracing, the operation of placing the other free rings would be the same as with one free ring D. By this arrangement all necessity of 90 sending down divers to secure the lower bracing is avoided, and the bracing may be made close to the surface of the ground in the deepest water.

What I claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with a pile, of an anchor ring and attached bracing, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a pile, of a bracket, roe

anch0r-ring,and bracing,substantial1 yas specirings, two or more free rings,and bracing, subfied. stantially as specified.

3. The combination with two piles" of a bracket, anchor-ring, free ring, and. briicing, AARON BURTON 5 substantially as specified. Witnesses:

4:. The combination,with two or more piles, J. J. SULLIVAN,

of two or more brackets, two or more anchor JOHN E. ELMENDORF. 

